Happy Halloween!!

Brendan is just heading out. Twins are dressed but asleep! Hopefully we get a picture when Brendan gets back.

Halloween party!

I want to just post the picture with no explanation, but rob won't let me. He is our neighbor Roz, and a pretty good likeness!

Sneak peak at Halloween

We'll see if you can guess costumes from these pics. Brendan had a little Halloween party at school today so we sent him off on the bus in costume today. He'd already lost his hat by the time we saw him at 10! Neat to see him interacting with his classmates especially the ones he talks about all the time.

We are hosting a Halloween party for the neighborhood this Saturday (easier than toting all the gear to someone else's house). I'll be sure to post pictures of that. Warning ; rob's costume may be a little unappealing to some - you've been warned!

Together time

The twins still don't seem to appreciate spending to time together. I guess you just can't force some things! We try to put them on their sides facing each other and they just turn their heads to look up at the ceiling instead.  Oh well!

All dressed up for errands at the mall

Pretty as a picture!

Working up to a smile

What are you lookin' at punk?

Everybody is sleepy in this house

Not every day is a busy one! We are all laying low here!

October Weigh In

Argh! It’s been a rather frustrating week. We’ve been fighting a very nasty computer virus which has meant I haven’t been able to get on to my email, blogger etc. for a very long time (hence all the short posts). It has also messed with our videos and photos (they’re there, but inaccessible), so I have nothing to post up with this note. I’m ready to throw the laptop out the window. Brendan has also been testing his limits much more lately. Whether we can attribute it to starting school, having new siblings or just being 4 is anybody’s guess, but it’s challenging for everyone. We spend most of the day repeating “Brendan, you know that’s not allowed”. I miss having fun with my child. The twins on the other hand are doing great! They have both really woken up and are spending more of their time now awake and looking around. Heidi is smiling quite a bit, mostly when she’s got a full tummy, and Harrison throws in the odd smile. It’s a lot of fun to put them down on the floor and watch them kick and smile at you. It’s hard to believe they’re moving out of their newborn stage, but time marches ever onwards! We are slowly learning how to manage our bigger family. Rob was a superstar and took all 3 kids to Brendan’s swimming lesson by himself a few weeks ago. I am not brave enough to attempt that yet! Brendan is doing a great job at swimming and is doing more and more swimming all by himself, but is still adamant that he doesn’t like it until he gets there. The twins had their 2 month check up and shots last Friday. Harrison (aka Hungry Bear) is now 10 lbs 13 ozs!! He certainly is looking more and more solid and has grown out of all of his newborn size clothes. Heidi is up to 8 lbs 13 ozs. I know it shouldn’t surprise me that they’re growing, but it still amazes me every time they’re weighed. Both twins were very brave for their shots, even Harrison, who is typically not the toughest kid. He was however comatose for almost 12 hours from the dose of Tylenol he got. Hmmmm, good to remember… ha ha ha. We did leave the doctor’s appointment with some homework. Heidi prefers to look to her left side and has become lopsided on the back of her head as a result, so we need place her in positions that encourage her to look to her right instead to correct it. I am finding this very hard to figure out (the old, “is that your right or my right” thing), and am probably putting her in the wrong position 50% of the time. And half the time I’m probably positioning Harrison thinking he’s Heidi… it’s a very confusing household! We’ve got a few quiet weekends at home planned, between birthday parties and weddings. We are hosting the neighbourhood Hallowe’en party this year. Brendan has announced (to no one’s surprise) that he is going to be an engineer (the train kind, not the bridge building kind) and the twins are going as Thing 1 and Thing 2! Nancy

Doting big brother

Brendan loves holding "2 babies " as he refers to them. He also loves giving them wet slobbery kisses on the head. Yuck!

Waking up

My twins are waking up!  Suddenly, at the ripe old age of 2 months both of my babies have suddenly started spending a lot more of the day awake and playing!

2 month photo

Happy Thanksgiving! Just back from a great weekend with the Coles with lots of boardgames hikes and Turkey. The twins also celebrated their 2 month birthday, how does it go by so quick?  They're quickly outgrowing paddington!

Awake time

The twins seem to be getting into a little bit of an eat, awake, sleep pattern the last few days! They grow up so quickly! Different as always,  Heidi usually falls asleep easily on her own and Harrison almost invariably needs to be wrapped up in a swaddling blanket. Lately his routine is he then wakes himself up with a toot half an hour later and then needs heroic measures (wrap, bounce, give soother, smack bum rapidly, bounce more, play music, wrap again. Hold for 5 minutes to ensure fully asleep then gently put down. Immediate rage ensues, start over and repeat cycle.) Heidi usually wakes up once during this whole process and puts herself back to sleep before we come over. She has contentedly fallen asleep while I wrote this while rocking her wrapped, soothered brother; perfect example!

Up all night

Had a wonderful time in Toronto at Gregg and Teresas wedding. Bob and Gail babysat for the afternoon and evening, and luckily there was no excitement until after we'd gotten home. About 4 AM we had to evacuate after the fire alarm went off. A leak in the fitness centre prompted the alarm, we discovered, but only after everyone had exited down the stairs to the lobby (twins, Brendan, parents,  grandparents and all). At least we were only on the 11th floor, the bride and groom had to interior their night hoofing it down 21 flights.  Never a dull moment!